<p>It seems like 100+ hours of volunteering at a hospital and 100+ hours of shadowing are pretty standard for med. school applicants. How does one accomplish this at a college without a med. school? Do you just have to do it over the summer?</p>
<p>You don’t need a med school. Just a nearby hospital.</p>
<p>thanks. so is there any advantage to going to a college with a med. school?</p>
<p>Possibly some–</p>
<p>1) nearby hospital used to seeing/accepting many student volunteers (but getting a volunteer slot could be harder since there will be many pre meds seeking one there)</p>
<p>2) more research options (if the medical researchers at the med school take undergrads into their labs–and some will and some won’t)</p>
<p>3) shared facilities (our state med school allows undergrads to use its cadavers/cadaver lab for A&P, but we’re pretty unique in that)</p>
<p>4) a few private med schools seem to give a slight preference in acceptance to undergrads from its own university (probably because the adcomm knows the LOR writers and trusts their judgments)</p>
<p>But these reasons are not enough to eliminate any college that doesn’t have an associated med school. In the end it relly doesn’t make all that much difference.</p>